New Roots Program

The first goal of New Roots is to use this place-based education experience to connect these children to the community and the environment, making them stakeholders in their new homes.

We achieve this by offering a completely cost-free, two-week long summer camp for refugee youth in the Boise area. Over the course of the New Roots Program about 20 middle-school aged children will be offered the opportunity to experience the diversity of the area and engage in land stewardship while learning about these special places; a place that is a new home for these youths and their families. Places we visit include multiple locations on the Boise National Forest, Hyatt Hidden Wetlands Reserve, Hulls Gulch and the Foothills Learning Center, and many more.

The second goal of the program is to empower these new stake-holders to contribute to conservation by equipping them with the knowledge, mentorship, and confidence to take meaningful action in their new homes. We believe this unique program creates connections on many levels, from opening doors into new career paths to making new friends and expanding support networks. We meet and learn from natural resource professionals at each site we visit, learning about land management, botany, hydrology, ornithology, and more.

This program is lead by the Golden Eagle Audubon Society and is supported through collaboration with many of the Treasure Valley's many nonprofit environmental organizations and area agencies, especially our partners at the Boise National Forest.

The Program is now in it's third year, and we are proud of the thousands of contact hours experienced with dozens of children.

Please help us in our effort to keep this program running!  This program is funded primarily through educational and environmental grant funding and through the contributions of caring individuals like you! 

For more information please visit the Golden Eagle Audubon website (http://www.goldeneagleaudubon.org/New-Roots-Program) or find the New Roots Program on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NewRootsProgram).